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Perl Command Line Interpreter
My Programming Languages professor assigned my class a homework assignment where we had to write a Perl interpreter using Perl. I really like Python's interactive command line interpreter which inspired this Perl script.

A command to post a message to Twitter that includes your geo-location and a short URL.
A command to post a message to Twitter that includes your geo-location and a short URL. The link shortening service is provide by TinyURL, the geo-location service is provided by HostIP and the IP address lookup service is provided by AppSpot. This is an upgrade of an of one of my previous contributions: http://tinyurl.com/yd2xtzv.

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

make computer speaking to you :)
you can listen to your computer, but don't be carried away

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Show crontabs for all users
added echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; to make clear whose crontab is listed.

Automagically update grub.conf labels after installing a new kernel
I like to label my grub boot options with the correct kernel version/build. After building and installing a new kernel with "make install" I had to edit my grub.conf by hand. To avoid this, I've decided to write this little command line to: 1. read the version/build part of the filename to which the kernel symlinks point 2. replace the first label lines of grub.conf grub.conf label lines must be in this format: Latest [{name}-{version/build}] Old [{name}-{version/build}] only the {version/build} part is substituted. For instance: title Latest [GNU/Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10.201003] would turn to title Latest [GNU/Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7.201004]"

On-the-fly unrar movie in .rar archive and play it, does also work on part archives.

find all active IP addresses in a network
There are several other options. This one is plain and simple. Another option is: nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24


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